This Season’s Designers
This year’s edition of the Berliner Salon brings together 36 designers presenting their work across fashion and accessories.
Scroll down to meet the designers and explore their work.
AfroBodega
AfroBodega is a sustainable BIPOC art collective based in Berlin since 2023. By only working with donated/self-produced fabrics every piece has its own storytelling and an elevated value from the black hands sewing each thread.
The collective uses fashion to center pride, identity, and resistance, while building space for collaboration and storytelling focused on black cultural narratives.
Aleksander Kudrischow
Aleksander Kudrischow is a brand with a focus on craftsmanship.Especially at a time when modern technologies are replacing a lot of human interaction, I find it particularly important to keep the generational conversation alive. By using tailoring techniques from bespoke suit-making while still having fun with garments, shapes, and designs, I aim to combine tradition with acontemporary and playful approach to clothing.
@alanhamliko
Amélie V
Amelie V stands for meless texle design that translates emotion into tangible experiences through material, texture, and color. Inspired by the rhythms of nature, I create high-quality knitwear pieces using natural and recycled fibers. My work bridges innovative craftsmanship with visual storytelling, fostering a deeper connection to our surroundings and invitng people to pause, reflect, and dream.
@amelie.vpl
Anastasia Bull
ANASTASIA BULL is a Basel-based fashion designer whose eponymous label explores voluminous shapes, vivid fabrics, and experimental pleating to create ethereal, powerful garments. Her intuitive, sculptural approach draws inspiration from feminist science fiction, celebrating fluidity, self-love, and intersectional feminism. A 2022 MA graduate of the Basel Academy of Art and Design and recipient of the Swiss Design Award 2023, her work has gained international recognition and has been worn by artists including Björk, Kehlani, and Bella Poarch.
www.anastasiabull.com
@anastasia.bull
Angelique Dins
Angelique Dins embraces individuality and celebrates diversity. The brand creates sustainable designs for every body, empowering self-expression with confidence and ease. At its core is the mission to blend timeless elegance with playful freedom, shaping a more inclusive future in fashion.
Boonrocked
Boonrocked exists at the intersection of high fashion and functional streetwear. Inspired by diverse cultures and perspectives, the brand creates distinctive designs that embrace contemporary influences while maintaining a timeless character.
Christiane Schwambach
In the project Rare Flowers, Christiane Schwambach translates the raw emotionality of contemporary art into circular, wearable accessories and objects. Inspired by the expressive, naïve paintings of artist Daniel Thurau, the series Only the Good Die Young captures the fleeting beauty and radiant transience of life. Thurau’s fluorescent palette is reflected in deconstructed vintage glass beads and contrasting fragments. The result is a collection of opulent
Clara Rathke
Clara Rathke is a fashion designer whose work explores transformation through sculptural silhouettes and refined craftsmanship. Balancing strength and softness, structure and fluidity, she creates garments that evoke both confidence and vulnerability. Her distinctive design language merges contemporary femininity with architectural forms, resulting in pieces that feel simultaneously powerful, sensual, and deeply personal.
ELVA BLAU
Rooted in anthropology, ELVA BLAU explores the meaning we attach to the things we carry. She understands her objects as contemporary artefacts that serve as extensions of identity. With an experimental approach and a focus on reclaimed materials, she creates singular objects whose forms emerge from intuitive making.
Gautamma
Gautamma is rooted in a deep exploration of transformation - of matter, meaning, and perception. Operating at the intersection of art, philosophy, and textile experimentation, fashion is treated not as adornment but as a sculptural and emotional language. Through immersive garments and material innovation, the work investigates the tension between illusion and embodiment, the real and the surreal, questioning the boundaries between inner and outer, body and space, fragility and force.
InJewels
InJewels is a contemporary fine jewelry brand founded by German-Ghanaian goldsmith Stella Owusu. Handcrafted in Berlin, the collections combine sculptural design, exceptional craftsmanship, and cultural influences from West Africa and Europe. Through responsible materials and meaningful design, InJewels creates jewelry that carries both beauty and personal significance.
IRMGARD
GRANDMA KNOWS BEST.
Rooted in restraint and precision, IRMGARD balances quiet elegance with a tactile sense of permanence.
J.A.I.W
J.A.I.W is a sustainable fashion label at the intersection of textile art and wearability. Inspired by the slug as a symbol of vulnerability, softness, and transformation. Through slow, tactile processes and sustainable materials, the brand creates emotionally resonant garments that invite reflection on our relationship with nature, change and the body.
jb archive
HAUS LINSENHOFF is a couture house founded by Liselott Marie Linsenhoff that unites French craftsmanship with German precision. The brand stands for a new, conscious form of couture—a fusion of art, activism, and craftsmanship. With a clear focus on women’s rights, HAUS LINSENHOFF aims to use fashion as a voice for social issues—not only to raise awareness, but to actively contribute to solving global challenges related to women’s rights.
joaH kRaus
Helen Eisen is an independent Berlin based slow fashion brand that merges artistic design with sustainable, innovative craftsmanship. Positioned at the intersection of fashion and art, the label explores individuality, identity, and contemporary social narratives.
www.heleneisen.com
@heleneisen_designs
KEN HAGEN
Inlé Studio is all about the hidden and forgotten. The designer Melanie Parzenczewski revives old crafting techniques like bobbin lace that have widely fallen into oblivion, creating space for cultural continuity in a time of fast change. Inlé Studio flows between rememberance, identity and possibilty, always moving within the tension between chaos and order while connecting historical and subcultural influences with comfort, timelessness and a love for details.
Lena Voutta
IVANSU is a contemporary jewelry label by artist Radha Díaz Hublitz. Handcrafted silver pieces are inspired by nature and the emotions that shape our inner world, expressed through organic lines, reduced silhouettes, and raw textures. Timeless designs stand for clarity, individuality, and contemporary elegance, created to honour the body.
Lene Böhles
J.A.I.W. is a sustainable fashion label at the intersection of textile art and wearability, inspired by the slug as a symbol of vulnerability, softness, and transformation. Through slow, tactile processes and thoughtfully chosen materials, the brand creates emotionally resonant garments.
Leo Moritz
Jb archive is an avant-garde fashion brand from Berlin focused on experimental materials, bold silhouettes, and uncompromising craftsmanship. The brand explores the tension between utility and expression, creating pieces that feel both raw and refined.
Levent Altin
Jon Liesenfeld explores human relationships and social structures between generations through intricate, one-of-a-kind garments that blend tradition with innovation. With a focus on experimental surfaces and unconventional materials, each piece showcases avant-garde craftsmanship, elaborate fabric manipulations, and a deep reflection on identity, purpose, and humility.
Maira Gath
Quirky, childlike and offbeat, Klara Schmidt has studied fashion design in Munich, London - and now Berlin. Her antecedent, bionomic and narrative approach playfully addresses political issues and profound subjects.
Maria Melzer
Lau de Sousa is a Portuguese fashion designer based in Berlin, working with an experimental, material-driven approach. Her work transforms flat surfaces into organic, sculptural forms through hands-on experimentation and techniques such as kirigami.
www.laucdesousa.wixsite.com
@laucdesousa
Melanie Limberg
Laura Obst creates fashion that unites femininity, function, and resilience. Drawing inspiration from the legacy of working women, her designs are timeless yet progressive, crafted with intention and purpose. Every garment reflects confidence, strength, and quiet power.
Nicole Kiesel
lealabob is a Berlin based ready-to-wear brand, with deep influences of sportswear coalescing twists of individual style, nostalgia and the future, we explore varied techniques to deconstruct the idea of conventional clothing in a raw and playful way. We navigate innovative solutions to create bold statement pieces balancing chaos and clarity while maintaining wearability and functionality in each garment.
We work with upcycling and discarded materials, using leftover pieces and fabric scraps as we work towards zero waste, creating unique, one-of-a-kind pieces as well as limited made-to-order series produced in our Berlin studio.
PARK217 Berlin
LENA VOUTTA is a Berlin-based fashion designer and textile artist whose work combines contemporary design with traditional craftsmanship. Her fashion and knitwear label focuses on handcrafted, one-of-a-kind statement pieces, including hand-knotted vests and coats with long, colorful fringes. These signature designs offer vegan, sculptural alternatives to fur.
Paulina Bongartz
Lennart Bohle is a german fashion designer and state-certified tailor based in Pforzheim. His work is defined by a fusion of traditional craftsmanship, sculptural silhouettes, and digital experimentation. With a strong focus on tailoring and couture, he explores the intersection of historical techniques and future-forward aesthetics
www.lennartbohle.com
@lennart_bohle
POOR[arzhan]GY
A long-term passion for vintage and antique fabrics - such as tablecloths and bed linens - brought this project to life. A deep sentimentality for their unique techniques and beauty sparked the desire to preserve and transform them into something new. One-of-a-kind garments composed entirely of vintage textiles interpretated in basic and timeless pieces.
Rosalba Faroghi
Lion Busch is a Berlin-based brand exploring shape, color, and movement. Wearable yet sculptural, the designs shift and flow with the body. The approach is always experimental and non-conforming, resulting in clothes that empower the wearer.
www.lionbusch.myportfolio.com
@lion_busch
SEGUN
Lithium Oak merges the raw allure of fantasy with a sharp, contemporary edge. Dream-wrought designs explore worlds out of reach with symbolism and unapologetic femininity.
SPSR.Studio
Luis Amslgruber challenges the meaning of clothing by questioning established norms of how garments are supposed to look, function, and be worn. His work explores the tension between tradition and everyday life, reinterpreting construction, purpose, and use. Drawing inspiration from imperfection, mistakes, and discomfort, he deliberately breaks conventions, transforming errors and unease into tools for rethinking form, function, and cultural expectations.
stöhr
Berlin-based slow fashion designer Marie-Louise Müller defines her handcraft by treating time as a material, relying on the calm precision of hundreds of hours invested in individual pieces. Working exclusively with natural fibers, zero-waste techniques, and upcycling, she brings life to her vision of escapist worlds populated with fewer items, but stronger signatures
Tarık Coşar
Nadine Aurin is a Berlin-based fashion label founded in 2024. The label approaches fashion as a medium for reflection, activism, and transformation, engaging with social and political themes through a conceptual practice. It combines contemporary design with traditional craftsmanship and upcycling, using clothing to create meaning beyond aesthetics and encourage position-taking.
www.nadineaurin.com
@nadineaurin
Tata Christiane
The exhibited works originate from a project engaging with the notion of transgression. The garments are developed from a series of preliminary object studies, created through an improvised process using found, everyday materials. These materials were intuitively assembled into small-scale objects and spatially expansive forms, allowing spontaneous constructions, material tensions, and unexpected relationships to emerge.
Through recontextualising, repurposing, and elevating the found, the works challenge conventional hierarchies of material value and form.
TUBULAR
Nicole Kiesel utilizes tedious repetitive processes of traditional handcraft techniques to shape the surface of the garments, reflecting on the history of unseen female labour and acts of care. The choice of the technique is based on the unique behaviour of the fabric, resulting in a piece inviting to be touched.
ULTRAVANTGARDE
Oxana Designs explores unusual pattern design that shape the space between the garment and the body, using materials outside their usual context. As a result, dramatic, playful and feminine silhouettes make the wearer feel strong, protected, and confident.
Zan Zalif
PARK217 is Mar Suárez and Michael Gentz. Originally from Barcelona and now based in Berlin, they work with materials that allow intuitive, soft, unfolding compositions to form (porcelain, glass, tin). All pieces are designed and crafted in-house.